Micro-sized microbial fuel cells (MFCs) are miniature energy harvesters that use bacteria to convert biomass from liquids into usable power. The key challenge is transitioning laboratory test beds ...

A novel energy system increases the amount of energy harvested from microbial fuel cells by more than 70 times. A team of scientists from University of Colorado Denver has developed a novel energy ...

Reporting in Environmental Science and Technology, researchers write of harvesting electricity ... close are we to scaling this up from microbial fuel cells to microbial power plants?

An example of a microbial fuel cell has gone on display at London's ... RED system would use alternating stacks of membranes that harvest this energy; the movement of charged atoms move from ...

“By using this microbial cell factory, you can bypass extracting tons of xylem sap and thus destroying dozens of trees to discover the molecules important for the physiology of plants,” said Li in a ...

CAR T cell immunotherapy, which uses a patient's own modified immune cells to find and destroy cancer cells, can produce ...

Every human being harbors between 10 trillion and 100 trillion microbial cells in a symbiotic relationship ... a range of bodily functions, including: harvesting energy from digested food ...

While most of this has focused on the material used to make the solar cell, researchers at JMU looked at the problem from a different angle—the light-harvesting system in solar cells.